[A Ball Player’s Career by Adrian C. Anson]@TWC D-Link bookA Ball Player’s Career CHAPTER XVIII 3/10
In spite of the fact that the day was even colder than the one that we had encountered at St.Paul, some 2,000 people assembled to witness the game.
Van Haltren pitched an excellent game for the All-Americans on this occasion, while Tener was freely hit and badly supported, the result being that we were beaten by a score of 6 to 3, but four innings being played.
Then followed the game that the crowd was most anxious to see, that being the one between the Chicagos and St. Pauls.
For the St.Pauls Tuckerman pitched and Billy Earle caught, while I sent in Mark Baldwin to do the twirling for the Chicagos.
It was a pretty game, and as neither side scored for four innings the excitement ran high. In the fifth inning the St.Pauls were again retired with a goose egg and Pfeffer crossed the home plate with a winning run for the Chicagos. It was a great game for the St.Paul Club to play, and Manager Barnes had a right to be proud of the showing they had made, as he certainly must have been. There was but little time for sight-seeing left when the game was over, and at seven o'clock that evening we were on the road for Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which was to be our next stopping point.
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